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This may be one of the worst designed websites I have seen. I was signing up, and exceeded the salary cap but it wouldn't let mne go back to the screen where I exceeded the cap. I could move backwards through the signup process and uncheck things, but the cap wouldn't adjust accordingly.

Now it won't let me change anything? Are you stuck with your initial selections or what?

That's a standard design attitude. When ever you design something (a new widget, a new compter, or a new piece of software - ESPECIALY a new piece of software), if the user can't figure what the hell you were thinking then he must be stupid. That attitude reigns supreme unless an item eventually becomes successful. Then, the design goes through enough iterations that it becomes much more refined (err... fool-proof?).

Now the designs that become successful quickly are usually well thought out and simplified as much as possible (but no more) in advance. So tell me... who's the stupid one, the user or the designer?

I'm a software engineer (Computer Systems Engineering - CSE, by degree). What I do borders on embedded systems. I mainly do device drivers, boot-loader/BIOS replacement code, and OS extensions/middleware.

I work on a core team doing reference designs and development systems for in-car computing devices that (depending on the incarnation) are a mixture of a car stereo, navigation system, PDA, and cell phone. They use 32-bit protected mode processors with a variety peripherials with various degrees of chip-level integration. It's a pretty cool job, but I'm the junior guy on a very small and very experienced team (which kinda' makes my life difficult some times). All-in-all, it's exactly what I went to school for.